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- Title
Building of an Experimental Cline With Arabidopsis thaliana to Estimate Herbicide Fitness Cost.
- Authors
Roux, Fabrice; Giancola, Sandra; Durand, Stephanie; Reboud, Xavier
- Abstract
Various management strategies aim at maintaining pesticide resistance frequency under a threshold value by taking advantage of the benefit of the fitness penalty (the cost) expressed by the resistance allele outside the treated area or during the pesticide selection ‘off years.’ One method to estimate a fitness cost is to analyze the resistance allele frequency along transects across treated and untreated areas. On the basis of the shape of the dine, this method gives the relative contributions of both gene flow and the fitness difference between genotypes in the treated and untreated areas. Taking advantage of the properties of such migration-selection balance, an artificial dine was built up to optimize the conditions where the fitness cost of two herbicide-resistant mutants (acetolactate synthase and auxin-induced target genes) in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana could be more accurately measured. The analysis of the microevolutionary dynamics in these experimental populations indicated mean fitness costs of ∼15 and 92% for the csr1-1 and axr2-1 resistances, respectively. In addition, negative frequency dependence for the fitness cost was also detected for the axr2-1 resistance. The advantages and disadvantages of the dine approach are discussed in regard to other methods of cost estimation. This comparison highlights the powerful ability of an experimental dine to measure low fitness costs and detect sensibility to frequency-dependent variations.
- Subjects
ARABIDOPSIS thaliana; PESTICIDE resistance; HERBICIDE-resistant crops; CLINES; BIOLOGICAL variation; PLANT genetics
- Publication
Genetics, 2006, Vol 173, Issue 2, p1023
- ISSN
0016-6731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/genetics.104.036541